One of every three bites of food eaten worldwide depends on pollinators — especially bees. So why are we so flippant about bee die-off? What can be done and what IS being done to stop it?
Election 2016 & The Rise Of Propaganda In America
The attacks on the planet, civil liberties and human rights are at the core of the American profit-driven, hierarchically-based governing system. While the ultra-rich keep prospering, large swaths of the population are disenfranchised. The tenures of Republican President Ronald Reagan and Democratic President Bill Clinton largely fortified and accelerated these assaults, exemplifying the bipartisan collusion of the elites against regular Americans.
Much has been written about the unprecedented inequality in the United States. An additional marker of a society in crisis is the status of the mental health of its population. With policies that have led to the privatization of prisons and health care, the deregulation of an already privatized pharmaceutical industry and a defunding of public mental health clinics, the nation is currently plagued by a mental health crisis that is reflected in a devastating heroin epidemic.
But how can a system maintain legitimacy while riddled with such gross corruption and inequality?
Cyberwarfare: Challenge Of Tomorrow
Computer hacking has become part of everyday life for the past few years as Internet-connected devices get been hacked left and right, but most times these are harmless, so-called “Internet of Things” appliances, like kettles or fridges.
But according to Boston-area hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess, it is attacked about every 7 seconds, 24 hours a day, and the strikes come from everywhere: hacktivists, organized crime, terrorists and even MIT students.
Nearly 1 in 3 Americans deals with some kind of health record compromise, and most of the time they are completely unaware it happened. This means that criminals gain huge amounts of information about people, including their social security numbers, phone numbers, addresses, and even their personal health information. Many of these types of information are much more permanent than even credit card numbers, and last forever. And most of these hacker attacks occur due to the sheer number of vulnerabilities in the security systems of hospitals.